642. Honours for Grania Iovina
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.66 x d: 0.42) of grey limestone, now in fragments;
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.42).
- Letters:
- Irregular Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.06; ll. 2,5, 0.05; l. 3, 0.035; l. 4, 0.025; ll. 6-7, 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Port on the East Mole, re-used in the sixth century defences
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:89, fig. 7. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucius
</ex>
Gr
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
nius
<lb
n="2"
/>
Sollers
<lb
n="3"
/>
Paulianus
<lb
n="4"
/>
permissu
ord
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
nis
<lb
n="5"
/>
Graniae
<lb
n="6"
/>
Iouinae
<lb
n="7"
/>
filiae
piissimae
</ab>
Translation:
Lucius Granius Sollers Paulianus, with permission of the city council, to Grania Iovina, his most dutiful daughter.
Commentary:
ll. 1-3. L. Granius Sollers Paulianus. Also in 708, ll. 1-3.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.17)
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